You can choose happiness daily no matter what your circumstances are. Go on the journey to find it through things like healing, self-love, outlook, daily gratitude, choices and purpose. We may not be taught these subjects in school but it is up to us to continue to teach ourselves with love and compassion. By doing things like writing thank you notes, journaling, getting out in nature, meditating, creating things we love, and more; we are offered many ideas to encourage a positive change within us. Each chapter's ending poem sparks a perfect summation of content as well as encouraging creativity. This book will take you on the quest to find and choose your best possible plan for lifelong happiness.
You can choose happiness daily no matter what your circumstances are. Go on the journey to find it through things like healing, self-love, outlook, daily gratitude, choices and purpose. We may not be taught these subjects in school but it is up to us to continue to teach ourselves with love and compassion. By doing things like writing thank you notes, journaling, getting out in nature, meditating, creating things we love, and more; we are offered many ideas to encourage a positive change within us. Each chapter's ending poem sparks a perfect summation of content as well as encouraging creativity. This book will take you on the quest to find and choose your best possible plan for lifelong happiness.
If you were to ask me earlier this year, or any other time of my life, if I would write a book about happiness I would never have thought so. But at this time in our lives I feel like there's so much crazy and warped energy around us that we need to be wise and figure out ways we can create our own happiness no matter the circumstances. No one is going to do that for us. It is our responsibility to create every feeling that we feel. No one can make us feel a certain way, rather it is up to us to choose to feel that way within the circumstances presented. I challenge you to choose happiness even when your current situation may not normally dictate it. Remember, it is your choice and it is your life.Â
I am not a psychiatrist, psychologist, or someone who went to school to learn how to be happy. This is just my interpretation of life and things that I’ve gone through, learned along the way, and/or watched others go through. Just like I mention in this book, sit with these thoughts, and if they resonate with you, great. If they don’t then don’t take them to heart. It’s always your choice. You are the master of your domain. I am just here to remind you of that.
I'm hoping that by reading this book you get a glimpse into things that you can do to create your own happiness. It’s definitely not something that we are used to having happen all the time especially through bad times, but I think this is our salvation. I feel like this is how we escape the matrix and the crazy of our current world. If we don't let the crazy in and we focus on our own happiness, we become exactly who we were meant to be. Let this be a sounding board to create things that you discover make you happy; share them with your friends, family, and everyone you know.
By the time you're done reading this book, you will probably know more than me about happiness. Certainly your own happiness. If I can help just one person achieve and choose happiness, I feel like I have accomplished something with this book. Here’s to an enlightened journey towards happiness for you and the world.
We embark on a journey
each day of our lives.
Our choices are many
do we take them in stride?
Is it happy, or sad,Â
or perhaps in between?
Let’s look at the prospects
and balance the unseen.Â
For those who are eternally optimistic or know that the joy of the Lord is their strength, this book offers nothing new under the sun; however, for those who struggle with finding and maintaining happiness, it will guide you on a journey towards more of it.
For well-seasoned folks, "The Quest for Happiness" is a lived experience we've already covered. However, for societal up-and-comers, the advice offered within its pages may come across as a new, wisdom-filled genius that's wonderful and easy to implement. It is a book filled with "Aha moments" where lightbulbs go off, and the truth is illuminated in a way that makes it stick.
Each chapter has a place where you can write down your thoughts as a direct response to the action steps laid out, explained, and suggested. This makes "The Quest for Happiness" more than a skimmed-through affair but an exploratory one where the reader's interaction achieves depth or lack thereof.
Whether this book speaks to you or not, I believe this author would find greater success as a poet! The ending of each chapter was my favorite and by far the most impactful. Each chapter closes with a poem that sums up what was just read. To me, poetry is this author's proper flex and where the wisdom and power within her words are truly found and felt. More often than not, poetry is insightful and memorable, and Paula Price's poetry is masterful!
To the author, I suggest turning the poetry sections of this book into a children's book that can also be used for and consumed by adults, such as "The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, and The Horse" by Charlie Mackesy. Expand your reach and unleash "The Quest for Happiness" to more people; happiness shared is happiness squared (or in other words - joy multiplied.)